In conducting research for computer science topics, I often find myself with huge CSV files that I open in Excel and try to make graphs. Often, I have way too many data points to graph. Sometimes, I do fancy things in my code to produce only a certain number of data points that are averages [...]

Most programming languages have built in libraries for generating random numbers from a uniform distribution. If you need to convert this to a normal or Gaussian distribution, some sort of transformation must be made. I found a good page that talks about this process and gives some example code in how to convert a uniform [...]